China Labour Watch, 2001 [n.d.]. The
following incidents provide a sample of work-related deaths
and injuries at Taiwan-invested companies in Guangdong. Most
of these factories are local partners with many American and
Western multinational companies. A large portion of their
products is exported to the United States.

Xinhua, 30 June 2001. South China's Guangdong province
exported 7.97 billion U.S. dollars worth of high-tech
products during the first five months this year, about 46
percent of the country's total. The volume represents an
increase of 36 percent over the same period last year.

Asia Pulse, XIC, [24 January 2003]. Citizens
today have wider choices and better, more personalized
services at the myriad small private businesses that seem to
have spontaneously risen to dominate the local economy.